it.slashdot.org Archives - 22 August 2013, Thursday

This certainly affects Bitcoin the most, but a random number generator that actually produces the same "random" numbers is hardly random at all, and could present a serious problem for all types of applications. In fact, that's a thoroughly-broken random number generator and all crypt...

"It has been just over two months since the bitcoin block chain was rocked by a near disastrous fork causing the bitcoin price to crash. The culprit of the crash was found to be a bug that prevented pre version 7.1 bitcoin clients accepting large blocks that could be generated by vers...

"The Bitcoin blockchain has forked due to a lurking backward-compatibility issue : versions older than 0.8 do not properly handle blocks larger than about 500k, and Slush's pool mined a 974k block today. The problem is that not all mining operations are on 0.8; blocks are being genera...

First time accepted submitter FearTheFez writes "Social Engineering and poor DNS Security lead to a Bitcoin heist worth about $12000 . Bitcoin broker Bitinstant was robbed after thieves managed to take over ownership of their domains. While Bitinstant claims that no customers lost any...

This one is quite a serious flaw, and the data this website in question deals with is very important data (citizen IDs), so I'm not surprised they're taking it seriously. The service being down for a day or two is probably better than millions of ids getting hacked. Perhaps the fix br...

"All of the current versions of the Ruby on Rails Web framework have a SQL injection vulnerability that could allow an attacker to inject code into Web applications . The vulnerability is a serious one given the widespread use of the popular framework for developing Web apps, and the ...

"All of the current versions of the Ruby on Rails Web framework have a SQL injection vulnerability that could allow an attacker to inject code into Web applications . The vulnerability is a serious one given the widespread use of the popular framework for developing Web apps, and the ...

"Every day or so of the last six months, Carnegie Mellon computer security professor Nicolas Christin has crawled and scraped Silk Road, the Tor- and Bitcoin-based underground online market for illegal drug sales. Now Christin has released a paper (PDF) on his findings, which show tha...